Welbeck
Aberdeen.—At 6.37 in the morning of the 13th of January, 1949, informa- tion was received from the Pilot Station that a vessel was aground to the north of the north pier, Aberdeen Bay, but was not making signals of distress.
The crews of both the Nos. 1 and 2 life-boets were assembled and from signals made it was learned that the vessel was the Grimsby steam trawler Welbeck, outward bound to the fishing grounds, with a crew cf eighteen. A light southerly wind was blowing with a slight sea, but a gale warning had been received. At 7.32 the No. 1 life-boat Emma Constance put out fol- lowed by the steam tug Danny. They reached the trawler in a few minutes and the life-boat took a line from her to the tug. The trawler was soon re- floated, and under her own power made for Aberdeen, escorted by the life-boat, arriving at ten o'clock.—Property salvage case..